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Six-year-old Lulu Renton came home from school having written a letter, “To God how did you get invented? From Lulu o x”. Dad tells the story of the letter here. Respect to the parents who, though atheists, do not brush the letter aside, but, instead, post it to a number of theological centres. Including Lambeth…. Continue Reading
I have tended to be wary about devoting much energy to the Anglican “Covenant” here. I do not see much value in debates that generate more heat than light. We can so easily get distracted – making majors out of minors… The Church of England is debating the “Covenant” in 44 diocesan synods. To help,… Continue Reading
The pope prayed for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake. Many were pleased that after this quake the Archbishop of Canterbury sent a message to Bishop Victoria Matthews: We are all thinking of you constantly in the wake of (the) terrible news, and our prayers are with you. The devastation of the Cathedral is dreadful,… Continue Reading
Symmetry in the sanctuary I have tended to take care not to focus excessively on the Anglican Communion Crisis. It has clearly become important, however, that this pre-eminent liturgy blog outlines the issues and informs readers about what has been highlighted by Fr. Montgomery as being what is primarily wrong with the Anglican Communion today:… Continue Reading
I have spent some time wrestling with my original Christchurch earthquake post (and sought help). It appears, from my playing around, that possibly a WordPress blog post may have a limited length after which it starts to misbehave. Badly. (Does anyone know anything about this?) Anyway – so I have decided to move more recent… Continue Reading
Having criticised the pope for his choice of Newman’s feast day, and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s clear inability to find a spine and say to the pope that Anglicans are aggrieved, I keep waiting for the knock at the door for the Anglican equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition:
Click here for further Christchurch earthquake updates. It appears that WordPress only allows a post to go to a certain length – so this post has been misbehaving recently. Sorry. Christchurch and Canterbury suffered a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Saturday September 5 at 4:35am. This has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks, many… Continue Reading
